The 4th Wednesday of the month is fast approaching -- time for our TC Drupal Users Group meeting. At June's meeting, a number of people expressed an interest in having us focus on theming this month. Given the breadth of this topic, we thought we'd forgo a formal presentation and open it up for people to share their favorite theming tip, resource, method, framework, module -- whatever. We also welcome everyone to bring any question they may have about theming Drupal sites for the group to discuss.
So, come one, come all. I encourage you to add a comment to this post identifying something you'd be willing to share (no formal presentation necessary) or outlining a question or topic you'd like the group to discuss.
Location:
Advantage Labs Offices in the IATP Building
2104 Stevens Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
7-9PM
As always, feel free to bring samples of your favorite beverage to share. Pizza will be provided.
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Fix needed: 4th Wednesday is 27th
What the subject line says :-)
So right, sorry
Ugh. I was looking at an August calendar when I typed in the date. Oh for a calendar widget for choosing dates for events... Thanks for the heads-up, Gabe. I've made the change.
Barry Madore
Triplo
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Oh well, maybe August...
I'm on a gig requiring twice-monthly trips to Fargo. The trips have conflicted with all of this summer's user group meetings. The next time I can attend I'll bring some foreign (AKA North Dakota) microbrews.
I'm hoping to make it...
My most recent efforts with theming were to help our Marketing Department by creating a "template" they could reuse for various landing pages, for lead generation. This page (www.skybotsoftware.com/node/6505 (the content of the page is likely to change as it is actively being updated by the content people as I type this)) is the result of those efforts. Deep down it's just a webform-enabled content type. All the assets on the page are replaceable by the content editors using the standard Drupal interface, relative positions of everything are fixed however.
Creating this brought me into many nooks, crannies, and dark spaces inside Drupal :) It has its own node-specific page.tpl.php so that all site navigation could be removed, and to do that I found myself inside template.php. Also a little JQuery here and there as well as some CSS fun (triangles in css). I'm sure I'm forgetting some hair-pulling now that it's done.
I found I needed to suppress the "body" entirely for the node. Doing so meant I could have multiple input fields for easier editing/creating and then scatter them about in the final page. There was a lot of concern over ease of duplication.
It's not exactly an example of theming a site, but it did teach me a lot. I'm also not so afraid to think outside the "standard drupal look" now.
After only maintaining the three sites I inherited, I'm finally going to be building my first one from scratch. It's going to be Drupal 7 and while I'm defining needed content types and doing requirements gathering, I'm also deciding on what to use for a base theme. Currently I'm leaning heavily toward Omega, though Fusion is a close second choice. A discussion of d7 base themes would definitely be of interest.